| Citation | Professor Raymond Joseph Dolan, Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London.
Ray Dolan has defined the functional anatomy of human emotion and choice behaviour with neuroimaging. His most significant discoveries combine approaches that encompass empirical observation and theoretical models. He has shown that anterior insula encodes interoceptive awareness and uncertainty in decision making, the amygdala mediates hedonic violations of rationality and the striatum encodes aversive as well appetitive prediction errors. These findings rest on computational fMRI, the use of models from computational neuroscience to furnish statistical models of neuroimaging data. This technique is attributed to Dolan and has had an enormous impact on the field of neuroimaging and neuroeconomics, allowing theoretical models to be tested empirically.
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